# CVE-2015-2172: DokuWiki before 2014-05-05d and before 2014-09-29c does not properly check permissions for the ACL plugins, which allows remote authenticate

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2015-03-30 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

DokuWiki before 2014-05-05d and before 2014-09-29c does not properly check permissions for the ACL plugins, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges and add or delete ACL rules via a request to the XMLRPC API.

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## References

- https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/issues/1056
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153266.html
- https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/commit/4970ad24ce49ec76a0ee67bca7594f918ced2f5f
- https://www.dokuwiki.org/changes
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72827
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153062.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152994.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/02/2
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0093.html

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